Re: How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

[Kevin Thorpe <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/06/2009 11:00, JohnS wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:46 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote:
>    
>> On 23/06/2009 10:39, Brett Serkez wrote:
>>      
>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Kevin Thorpe<kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>   wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Yet I can still connect to the shares as kevin..... strange
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> As root try:
>>>
>>> # service smb reload
>>>        
>> Curiouser and curiouser. That worked, I can't connect now. Why should
>> Samba cache the password file?
>> Seems a bit of a security problem to me.
>>      
> ---
> The samba Caching directory is in /var/cache/samba . Why should it Cache
> it? For quicker access. That is the way it is designed and I know of no
> security flaw in that. Just executing service smb reload will not
> disconnect a user. But using "restart" will dump all the users.
Oh, I didn't spot the distinction between 'reload' and 'restart'. 
Personally I would have forced that after a password
change, or at the very least after deleting a user because otherwise 
they seem to still be able to get in.
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